Limited Action Quotes

If a nuclear power is willing to be bolder than another, it can take limited conventional actions without fear of major pushback.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

‎I don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now.

We do need brothers and sisters to go into elected offices and political offices and do that, but my spirit is telling me something different. Because you are a Democrat or Republican you have to do this but you can't do that and so it's somewhat limiting in what you can actually do and I've done that.

I am so restrained in all my military movements that it is impossible to undertake anything effectual

When you're in government, you have a big impact in Washington, but Washington may not be doing very much.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

I'm not walking around the stage, I'm not moving.

God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.